Tim Richardson showed off his mini media centre at the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam. He’s now started up a blog about his experiences and projects with the Pi. Here’s his post on the media centre. The whole thing is powered…
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A talking robotic bartender with the #RaspberryPi
Lots of projects news this morning! Steven Hickson has been working with a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino to create a voice-controlled talking robot bartender. He himself admits that it’s a bit slow, but it is very polite! The voice command…
Ground control lets you manage and monitor your #RaspberryPi
Here’s a new monitoring and managing package that shows promise. It’s called Ground Control. Read more here.
A guide to all the variants of Arduino
For those of you who are interested in using an Arduino, whether in conjunction with the Pi or not, here’s a guide to the most common boards.
Geiger counter breakout board under development for the #RaspberryPi
Hackerspace group Apollo NG are developing a new board for the Raspberry Pi which houses a Geiger counter. They’re in development at the moment and you can indicate a preference for how you might like to get hold of the…
Adafruit guide to setting up the #RaspberryPi as a wifi access point
The always-reliable Adafruit have published a method for turning your Pi into a wireless access point. Please note, you will need a wifi dongle that supports the correct mode for this to work. Their guide is available here
Use the command line to play videos on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great little guide to using omxplayer to play videos from the command line. As he points out, this is a great way of playing videos that you’ve recorded from the camera module. Read…
Echo’s Room with Murmur and the #RaspberryPi – visualising sound waves / @Raspberry_Pi
This is an awesome project. “Murmur” is a device which takes spoken sounds and converts them into waves which it then uses as the source for a visual projection that is just stunning. More information can be found on their Project…
Use the Minecraft API with the full version using Raspberry Juice
Martin O’Hanlon has blogged a way to use a Java package to allow you to use your Minecraft Pi Edition scripts with the full version of Minecraft. It’s fairly complicated to do, but he’s written a full tutorial. Read the tutorial…
#RaspberryPi-powered Antique Telegraph Sounder dings when a sale is made
Patrick Schless has been working for the last 9 months on a project involving an antique telegraph sounder and a Raspberry Pi. He’s created a PCB to handle the interface between the Pi and the sounder and written code to…